Lot 351
  • 351

PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ | Tulipe sauvage (Tulipa sylvestris)

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pierre-Joseph Redouté
  • Tulipe sauvage (Tulipa sylvestris)
  • Watercolour and bodycolour, with touches of gum arabic, over black chalk, on vellum;signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté
  • 470 by 336 mm

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Empress Josephine;
thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria;
thence by descent until sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, 23 May 1935, lot 82;
Erhard Weyhe, New York;
sale (''Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Liliacées"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lot 165, to W. Graham Arader, New York

Catalogue Note

See note to the previous lot.